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My iPhone 4 arrived 2 days early!

As of last night my shipping status still showed a delivery date of the 24th even though I had received the email from Apple informing me of a possible early delivery on the 23rd.

Was quite surprised this morning when my wife handed me a box from FedEx and it said “Assembled in China” on the side. I was actually expecting a few other FedEx / UPS deliveries, but not the iPhone for 2 more days.

Regarding activation; I simply powered it on, plugged it in, punched in the requested details from iTunes and it was up and running in about 15 seconds. I was able to immediately make and receive calls within seconds of activation, which was quite surprising. I feel bad for those who received it but are unable to activate theirs. That’s brutal.

Thus far the screen is brilliant and clear and almost has a surreal feel to it, the display is so crisp it simply looks fake. The phone is extremely thin, feels hefty and the sharp corners seem to make it a little easier to grip.

As for performance, you’d expect me to say that it is extremely snappy… and well, I have to say that it really is. The whole family has had a turn on it since it arrived and we all feel the exact same. It actually feels very much over powered from a performance perspective, everything is quick and smooth.

Call quality thus far is pretty frustrating, I’m having wide swings from full signal to absolutely nothing with more than 5 dropped calls so far. Hoping this doesn’t continue.

Battery is quite impressive, my son played Jelly Car 2 for about 45 minutes or so and depleted a measly 8% of the battery.

In regards to heat, it does feel a little warm, like hand-warmer warm… nothing serious.

The rear facing camera, which is by far one of the most popular features is just incredible, the videos and snapshots below don’t do it justice… I’m not a photographer so it’s easy to see why they look so amateurish.

The camera display while taking snapshots and recording video is breath taking, colors are amazing.

Over all, super-impressed.

I’ll include a number of pictures and some video here and a few links to the blogs that are posting them as well.

Hey. I was wondering if you could tell me whether you had to input your cell phone number that is to be assigned to the new phone, or if the sim card was already pre-programmed? I had a friend use his upgrade for so I could get the new iPhone, but I’m wondering if I’ll just be able to lug it in and use out of the box on my own, or have to take it into AT&T… Any thoughts or comments would be very helpful. thanks.

My Goodness, the iPhone 4 is a lot more gorgeous than I expected. the photographs are just stunning! Loving the quality on the games too, so smooth and just lovely. I seriously can’t wait for mine to arrive, hopefully it’ll deliver today!

Sound quality appears to have improved all around for both the internal speaker and ear speaker. Signal strength is a bit frustrating, I get 4 to 5 bars here at the house with the 3GS but keep losing signal with the new iPhone 4.

I received mine today and as you describe I have swing from no bars to full bars….but I noticed when I have my fingers over the antenna gaps I loose bars and when I remove my fingers from the gap I slowly get bars back….also screen more sensitive it reacts to my cheek causing calls to go to speaker or ending call. Other than that I absolutley am blown away with the crisp clean view and the PDF files…and so much more

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Have you been able to get a case yet? I can’t believe that a lot of companies like Otterbox still do not have any. If these companies knew that so many people were getting their iPhone 4 by June 24th why didn’t they make sure we could order them and have them in time for the phone?

Amazing to be browsing the iPhone4 release news and come across this link from MacRumors! Great article, those pictures are amazing! With all the AT&T downtime on June 15th I wasn’t able to pre-order until the morning of the 16th and then I was thrown into the July 14th batch of phones. Can’t wait to get my hands on one though!

Have you ran up any applications that really tax the processor yet? Have you begun any development for the IOS4 platform yet?

I know that iPhone 4 is the best buy, but I am not going to buy iPhone 4 until and unless they are going to fix this issue. I do not think that merely the software update is not going to solve the problem.

Loyal Moses

President of Tactical FLEX, Inc., creator of Aanval, entrepreneur, multi-language developer, information security architect, published author, public speaker and dabbler of most all things technical.
Additionally, I consider myself an all around fan of OS X, iOS and general Apple technology.
Outside of the office is spent with family, riding horses, working cattle and building on our ranch.